Last month, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J. At issue was whether Idaho ...

Empirical SCOTUS is a recurring series by Adam Feldman that looks at Supreme Court data, primarily in the form of opinions ...

You’re running out of time to take advantage of the preorder offer for Last Branch Standing, Sarah Isgur’s new book, set to ...

Immigration Matters is a recurring series by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández that analyzes the court’s immigration docket, ...

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Cases and Controversies is a recurring series by Carolyn Shapiro, primarily focusing on the effects of the Supreme Court’s ...

James Comey’s recent “short report card on the rule of law” said in concise form much of what I had been planning to write about the extraordinary checking function of […] ...

Chief Justice John Marshall was sworn in on this day in 1801. We wrote about his upbringing, political career, and legal ...

Saturday marked 20 years since Justice Samuel Alito took his seat on the Supreme Court. The question of whether Alito might ...

In 2025, the United States saw a surge in executions after a period of decline. According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 47 people were put to death in 11 […] ...

As we’ve noted many times before, we read a lot of news stories in the process of preparing this newsletter. But we’ve perhaps never seen a headline as memorable as […] ...

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson just lost out on a major award to the Dalai Lama. To understand why they were in competition, ...